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Sem Honors
Four seminary students qauilified
for top honors with straight A
averages during the fall quarter:
Charles C. Anderson, David Clark,
Norris Magnuson, and Gordon Ol-son.
The B honor roll includes 35
seminarians: Bert Anderson, Mar-vin
Anderson, Arthur Bayley,
Bernhard Bertell, David Brown,
Ralph Carlson, Bruce Chapman,
Milton Christensen, John Douhan,
David Engebretsen, Carroll Erick-son,
Frederick Erickson, Robert
Erickson, Calvin Fernlund, George
Galstad, Jr., John Hiben, Charles
Hill, Florence Jacobson.
Albert V. Johnson, Gordon John-son,
Ernest Kratofil, Oscar "Bud"
Lee, Harold Lind, Harry Menzies,
Richard Moberg, Paul Moon, Ro-bert
Oberg, Richard Ottoson, Law-rence
Seiffert, Harvey Swanberg,
Fred Thomas, Malcolm Van Ant-werp,
Lawrence Van Heerden,
Richard Varberg, James Wilson.
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Vol. XXXIII—No. 9
Published by Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, January 10, 1956
Two Gain Perfect Averages
Two Bethel college students won highest scholastic honors during
the fall quarter. They are George Dvirnak and Linden Magnuson, who
earned straight A averages.
Nineteen students scored B plus
honors by earning 2.50 grade point
average or higher: Marjorie Block,
Bonnie Carlson, Bill Conrad, Bar-bara
Fischer, Barbara E. Johnson,
Lois Johnson, Grace Jolly, Janet
Lindquist, Marie Magnuson, Emily
Mattson, Carolyn Nystrom, Mar-jorie
Peterson, Ardith Rust, Fred
Schindler, June Sparling, Winni-fred
Stanford, Donald Sto'ham-mer,
Henry Swartz, and George
Wessman.
Fifty-three Bethelites earned B
honors: Willis Adams, Phyllis An-derson,
Martha Beaty, Joanne
Bennett, Paul Berg, Luther Bos-track,
Beverly Bowman, Phil Cal-deen,
Beverly Carlson, J. Robert
Carlson, June Carlson, Robert
Carlson, Retha Creech, Marlene
Durscher, Lorraine Eitel, Rollo
Entz, Edwin Erickson.
Nils Friberg, Ken Fuller, Al
Glenn, Donn Goss, Robert Ham,
Wayne Hassell, Betty Hendrickson,
Allen Hubin, Arnold Intveld, Ruth
Irons, Gloria Johnson, Lois Lar-son,
Richard Larson, Barbara Lin-der,
Carol Martinson, Betty Matt-son,
Ripley Moore, Morris Motley.
Fred Nordby , Ariel Obinger,
Normangene Olinger, John Os-born,
Beverly Otterness, Carol
Petry, Robert Reed, Bruce Rich-ardson,
Evan Rogers, Carol Seese,
Marylyn Sharp, Mildred Smith, Al-lan
Stahnke, Sally Waindl, Mar-lene
Warden, Elinor Weaver, Viv-ian
Weekley, Gerry Wilber.
The list of honor winners in-cludes
19 freshmen, 26 sopho-mores,
18 juniors, and 11 seniors.
George Dvirnak looks up for Linden Magnuson's okay on their
two perfect stratight A records.
Above: A. W. Tozer
We Need
Sanctified Thinkers
by A. W. Tozer
(Reprinted from the Alliance Weekly by permission)
The Church today is languishing for men who can bring to the
problems of religion reverent, courageous minds intent upon a solution.
Unfortunately Fundamentalism has never produced a great thinker.
One may examine the output of the religious press since the turn of
the century and not find a single book written by a fundamentalist
Christian that gives evidence of any real independent thought. And
as for those Christian scholars who, while thoroughly orthodox, yet
do not care to be classed with the fundamentalists, they have done
little better.
Let it be understood by everyone that am now and have always
been an evangelical. I accept the Bible as the very Word of God and
believe with complete and restful confidence that it contains all things
necessary to life and godliness. I embrace the tenets of the historic
Christian faith without reservation and am conscious of no spiritual
sympathy with Liberalism or Modernism in any of their manifestations.
Yet it is my painful duty to record not only that I have not been
challenged by the intellectual output of the evangelicals of this genera-tion,
but that I have found evidence of genuine religious thinking
almost exclusively on the side of those who fore one or another reason
are in revolt against Fundamentalism. We of the gospel churches
have sat quietly by and allowed those on the other side to do all the
thinking. We have been content to echo the words of other men and
to repeat religious cliches ad nauseam.
Rehashed Thoughts
By this I do not mean to assert that there have been no good or
useful books produced in gospel circles in the last fifty years. Un-doubtedly
there have been. Many good doctrinal books have appeared,
mainly expositions of the Pauline Epistles. Some excellent devotional
works have also been written, some good Christian biographies, a
number of fine books on foreign missions, not to mention a whole raft
of books on revival, written usually by persons who never saw a revival
of more than local proportions. All these books have served some
good end, no doubt, and we may in all sincerity be grateful for them;
but the trouble with them is that they are no more than rehashes
of other works that have appeared before them. They carry no evi-dence
that they are in any sense original. They were put together
out of pieces borrowed from others rather than born out of the anguish
and joy of personal experience. They cost the authors nothing beyond
the mechanical labor of writing them.
After committing myself to the foregoing sweeping statements
I suppose I should provide myself with an escape hatch in case some-one
drops a depth charge in my vicinity. I admit that I am forced to
speak within the framework of my own limited experience, and it could
be that some great evangelical thinker has appeared unknown to me
and written a masterpiece of which I have not yet heard. If this is
so, then I am in error. Again, if some of my readers should consider
such a man as C. S. Lewis an original thinker, I might explain that I
would classify Mr. Lewis as an apologist rather than as a creative
religious writer. He brings to the defense of historic Christianity a
mind as clear as sunlight and an amazing ability to make the faith
of our fathers appear reasonable. His weakness, or rather the weak-ness
of his books, lies in an almost total absence of moral urgency.
One may read his arguments, admit their soundness and remain com-pletely
unmoved by the whole thing. In short, his books persuade the
intellect but never get the conscience in trouble. For this reason C. S.
Lewis must remain an apologist; he can never be a reformer.
(continued on page 4)
Nine Win
Scholarships
High School Valedictory Schol-arships
have been awarded to nine
freshmen. These scholarships pay
one half of the winter quarter tui-tion
and all of the spring quarter
tuition.
The recipients are: John C. An-derson,
Stromsburg, Nebraska;
George Dvirnak, Killdeer, North
Dakota; Mary Fredrickson, Mara-than,
Iowa; Margie Kling, Beulah,
North Dakota; Janet Lindquist,
Grand Marais, Minnesota; Rich-ard
P. Nelson, Balaton, Minnesota;
Mark Nyberg, Kennedy, Minne-sota;
.Evan Rogers, Escanaba,
Michigan; David Shold, Grand
Marais, Minnesota.
College Shows
New Art Display
Boasting thirteen colored panels
and a title panel, the Student Cen-ter
finds itself this week in an-other
sea of colorful modern art.
This exhibition is released by the
Circulating Exhibitions Depart-ment
of the New York Museum
of Modern Art.
Explanatory text on each panel
gives information about the art-ists,
their points of view, and
their outstanding contributions to
the development of modern paint-ing.
Offered in conjunction with the
exhibition is the publication What
is Modern Painting, $1.25.
Work Begins on
Our Town"
Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"
will be presented by the Junior
Class April 13. The first rehear-sal
was held 3:00 Friday with
John Woods directing. Adeline
Duncan is assisting as student
director with Ray Geiger as the
stage manager. Mary Lou Rey-craft
is in charge of costuming
and Al Stahnke will manage ad-vertising
and ticket sales.
A Prayer
We Have Asked
Another little day of our earthly
existence is ended, dear Father.
We have asked Thee to use our
lives as vessels through which
Thy love can flow, but in our self-centeredness
we have had only a
stagnant love for ourselves. We
have asked for a portion of Thy
goodness, but we have been cold-ly
indifferent to the cares of
others. We have asked Thee for
joy and have turned to material
things to find it. We have asked
Thee for patience and wisdom, and
yet, we have left Thee out of our
hastily made decisions. In asking
Thee for peace of mind we have
not ceased our worrying and fret-ting,
but through our own efforts,
we have increased our frustrations.
And, because we have failed to
rest in Thy strength, we now come
to Thee in our weariness. Father,
make us conscious of our failures.
Forgive us, dear Father, for
asking and not accepting.
In our Saviour's name, amen.
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Not Just
A Week
Efate/data
A Case for Good Judgment
Is Bethel spiritual? Let's see what spirituality means. To me
spirituality is your attitude. Your actions reflect your attitude and
it is by your actions that others judge your attitude and therefore
your spirituality.
Someone will say, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." This may
be a simple problem of the meaning of the word "judge." In this
case maybe to judge means to condemn. It is how you judge—
what your attitude is—that makes a difference.
So, we need standards to judge by. I think they exist some-where
between extreme Fundamentalism and utter cynicism.
Take the fervent "soul-winner."
Christians mistakenly gauge spirituality by the number of
"souls" a person has "saved." The missionary challenge seems far
broader in meaning than just to go about town-crying, "Repent,
or be damned." Such a person may kill himself trying to find a
Bethelite who needs to be "saved," or who would listen to him
if he were not a Christian. I value such enthusiasm but it becomes
so often misguided, abused and uncontrolled—and a powerful good
turns into wasteful evil.
On the other hand, there's the "hard-boiled" cynic.
Have you ever stolen apples ? You know that you are doing'
wrong; you know that the orchard could be entered legally; you
know that you don't need the apples, for you are not starving)
or even hungry. Still you steal—just for the fun and adventure
of disobeying conscience, parents, or the law; just to be a non-conformist,
or just to be naughty. It can be just so easy to become
a most venomous, cutting cynic in a Christian community like
Bethel. And does this mean that such a one has "fallen away"?
It is more nearly correct to judge that he has taken an easy path.
(It may come out the same idea.)
In the matter of spirituality, both of the extremes mentioned
above are poor; fiery but blind zeal, or penetrating but lazy criti-cism.
To level this spiritual teeter-totter is difficult. It is hard
to have a well balanced Christian personality. There doesn't seem
to be the easy Christian life. And there are no easy answers to
its problems.
Is Bethel spiritual ? Look.
Measurable Values
by Paul Grabill, assistant professor of English
Bethel's program each year includes such diverse events as Home-coming,
Nik Dag, the Junior Class play, and Deeper Life Week. The
last-named is upon us. Presumably this week is something other than
entertainment. Now what is it really ?
Let us cite what it is not first. As I conceive it, it is not to be
five full days of rib-thumping, arm-flailing exhortation and challenge.
It is not a period in which we act unusually religious. Nor is it to
provide a religious feast toward which we hungrily press for 51
weeks. It is not to be a peek of "mountain-top experience" climaxed
by impassioned hand-raising and card-signing. Nor is its purpose even
to make better Christians out of us for five great days. Moreover,
it is not an academic vacation.
But Deeper Life Week is an important part of the over-all Bethel
program that strives to develop spiritually and intellectually mature
Christians. We do not sever ourselves from our other Bethel exper-ience
during this week; this is a part of the whole. We bring to the
services that understanding and those critical faculties that we are
developing from day to day. At each meeting ideas are presented
which we listen to and evaluate as best we know how. And according
to our need and our ability we then incorporate these ideas into our-selves.
Thus, Deeper Life Week becomes—not a temporary source of
emotive release and good feelings—but a permanent experience.
Of course this is the ideal. Often we are left unchanged by Deeper
Life Week and piously rationalize that something supernatural has
happened within without our realizing it now, something that will
—someday—result in improved living. I doubt this. Deeper Life Week
should produce spiritual values that can be measured objectively. The
simple test is to ask ourselves during the week following Deeper
Life Week: Am I different this week from week before last? In
what ways ? Am I more conscientious in my studies ? Are my attitudes
and actions toward others improved ? Do I take God into account
more than I did ?
May God grant each of us this year a significant Deeper Life
Week.
from a ebri5tnut5 'letter
Then it was Christmas Eve. And the little tribe gathered
around while Papa read the familiar story of the Baby and thanked
the Father for this most wonderful of all gifts .. .
Our family seems especially close at Christmas time. It's the
same feeling you get when someone has gone out of his way to
do something just to please a friend. And of course that feeling
is enhanced at the thought of God's going out of His way to give
man peace. Somehow you look into the faces of the people you
know and have known for years and you see new value. Old fried-ships
take on new meaning and your heart holds deeper love.
You're happy for people's good fortune and care enough for
the needy to do something about it. All around you see people-strangers—
with softer expressions. When you're competing with
customers in a crowded department store and one of them steps
on your heel, you can almost expect a smile and a hearty, "Sorry—
Merry Christmas !" Once in a while someone will answer your
smile with a scowl and you don't flare inside but feel sorry for
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74e 7eadeir Sftealea
"Tolle Lege"
by Anton T. Pearson, prof. of Old Testament Language and Literature
"Take, read," was the slogan for Universal Bible Sunday, December
11, 1955. These words, "tolls, lege," (take, read) called out by a child
at play led a sophisticated young philosopher, Augustine, to resume
reading the epistles of Paul. In the year 386, through the message of
Romans 13:13-14, he met his Savior and experienced pardon and peace.
He became one of the mightiest theologians ever to adorn the Church
of Jesus Christ.
Well might we apply the words "take, read" as an admonition to
ourselves to "give attention to reading" of God's Word. I would like
to review with you some suggestions that will help us become better
acquainted with the Bible, enable us to teach and speak out of the
overflow.
(1) Resolve to read the Bible all the way through this year. Read
the New Testament first if this is your initial trip through the Bible.
Otherwise read both Testaments daily. Three chapters each weekday
and five each Sunday will take you through the Bible in one year.
(2) Make use of many versions. Since most of us cannot read
the Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek, we must needs read it
in some version or translation. Rather than taking the word of others,
find out for yourself what the various versions are like. Read Moffatt,
Smith-Goodspeed, and the Revised Standard Version. Read the New
Testament paraphrases by Phillips and the Gospels as translated by
Rieu. A modern language edition throws a flood of light on various
passages. It is thrilling to compare the different versions. A good
way to keep posted on your Spanish, German, Swedish, and Latin is
to read the Bible in those languages. Diligent pastors strive to read
the New Testament in Greek once a year! But what shall I say about
the Hebrew ?
Bible by Mims—these studies will
enrich one's personality and give
him much to share with others.
(5) Last, first, and always there
is the devotional reading of the
Bible. The psalmist delighted in
the law of the Lord, meditated on
it, hid it in his heart, found it
more desirable than gold. In our
devotional reading, we are not
out to cover ground or discover
sermon topics, but to feed our
souls, we are concerned to meet
Christ and to receive reproof, cor-rection,
and instruction in right-eousness.
For a life of spiritual
strength the daily meditation on
God's word is imperative. "They
that wait upon the Lord shall re-new
their strength." "Take, read."
A Refresher Course
by Russell W. Johnson, associate professor of Biology
When I practiced and taught forestry, I attended conferences to
familiarize myself with my purposes and aims as a forester and inject
new ideas into my program. As a Christian instructor at Bethel,
Deeper Life Week is like a conference because I can reacquaint my-self
with the challenging opportunity for service and consider new
ideas.
I know that I have been com-
Nor is it enough that criticism missioned by God to instruct
be true. The law of libel is useful young people in the way that He
here. A statement may be true has revealed Himself to man in
but libelous if in the court's opin- nature. Through the emphasis for
ion its pronouncement was occas- a "deeper" life, I want to be cer-ioned
by no reasonable purpose. tain that my relationship with the
No one is obliged to shout all the students, and with everyone I
truth he knows from the house- meet, is not shallow. Deeper Life
tops. (This idea does not relate week presents an opportunity to
to the obligation to be truthful recognize more clearly our moti-when
it is necessary to speak on vations and strive with new under-some
matter. It only relates to standing and zeal to commit them
the town-crier instinct possessed to Him.
by many of us.)
The fact that Deeper Life Week
Of course it goes without say- is being held at this time should
ing that criticism ought to be not give students an opportunity to
only truthful but also punctiliously seriously evaluate their spiritual
concerned with accuracy and com- life on campus as compared to
pleteness. their spiritual life in the home
For the Christian critic there is church. Because their memory of
still another demand that must the atmosphere in the home church
be heeded. All criticism must be is still fresh and they are return-given
in love. Jesus was a devas 7 ing to Bethel as students familiar
tating critic. Witness the "white- with college life, I feel that they
washed sepulcher" passage. But are particularly eager for and re-he
wept for those he decried. This ceptive to guidance.
juxtaposition of love and criticism From my experience with Deep-is
hard to achieve, but it is crucial er Life Week during the past
in the teaching, preaching, and years, I know that our young peo-parental
function, and therefore ple will be doing some serious and
must be learned. significant thinking this week and
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the weeks to follow.
by Junetta Best
Deeper Life seems to be one of
the most challenging titles which
could be attached to a week of
inspirational and devotional meet-ings
prepared for a group of
Christians. The title suggests the
possession of a deep life prior to
the week and the possibility of
leading a deeper life as a result
of the week's meetings.
For myself, I expect from Deep-er
Life Week greater insights on
God and His ways and a closer re-lationship
with Him. I would have
the Lord make me recognize my
need for obedience and make me
yield myself completely to Him all
over again, that I might emerge
from the experience with a deeper
life wherein the roots which God
has planted might be more firmly
established.
In relationship to Christ I would
suppose that Deeper Life Week
will be a fulfillment of Colossians
1:27, "To whom God would make
known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles; which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory." From the Word
I would expect a fulfilling of I
Peter 1:2, "As newborn babes de-sire
the sincere milk of the Word
that ye may grow thereby." Here
particularly I would expect in this
week to find material to "grow
thereby."
Just a few thoughts without any
more knowledge of what Deeper
Life Week should mean other than
what is implied in the name itself.
Zetteta to
Ederept
00n Criticism
Dear editor:
Any society or any individual
needs the prod of criticism at
all times if they are to escape the
stagnating effects of self-satisfac-tion.
Any college community educat-ing
itself for rich living, there-fore,
must permit and promote
criticism of its total life—its val-ues,
its personnel, its student body,
etc., for without criticism the col-lege
itself will be poorer and the
student body will be less skilled
in this needed capacity.
A college newspaper ought to
be one source of this criticism,
and it ought to be free to experi-ment
in the critical arts. But in
exercising these arts those who
write, edit, and even those who
contribute to the letter-to-the-edi-tor
column ought to consider care-fully
the purpose of criticism.
Criticism is a means. It is not
an end. One criterion of criticism
must be, therefore, its usefulness
in promoting some worthy end,
which we may label here as the
bettered life of the group (or in-dividual).
Any attempted critical
effort that is not productive of
some betterment is not really
criticism at all.
Thus, it is not enough that
criticism be clever. The temptation
to use satire, irony, or lampoon
solely for art's sake is very great,
and these are useful tools in the
critic's kit. But when the ill use
of these tools causes bitterness,
hatred, and stand-patism it con-stitutes
pseudo-criticism at best—.
for the simple reason that it may
hinder progress.
(3) Use a good commentary.
Reading a commentary may seem
like a dictionary—hard to find the
plot. But read your Bible portion
and commentary side by side, and
you will be amazed at your growth
in Biblical knowledge. For a be-ginning,
get the New Bible Com-mentary
published under the aus-pices
of the British Intervarsity.
Commentaries are expensive, but
they are life time investments, and
absolutely essential to any deep
study of the Scriptures.
(4) Study special topics re-lated
to the Bible. The minerals,
plants, diseases, astronomy of the
Bible—what fascinating paths to
explore! Archeology and the Bible,
as treated by Finegan, Albright,
and others; The Poets and the
.ette,te rite
Edeal
(continued)
Given the above criteria, much
of our critical effort on this cam-pus
and in this paper has been
pseudo-criticism. When this was
due to the "amateur" status
of the critic, it could be excused.
But some efforts have been mere-ly
clever, or inaccurate, or just
plain baiting. These reflect in some
measure the selfish demand for
applause, the • lazy inability to take
pains, and the impish desire to
cause irritation. That such critical
effort has existed is at once de-plorable
and dangerous for many
reasons, among which is the fact
that irresponsible criticism has
often led to the regrettable sur-pression
of all criticism.
W. H. P.
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Northland avenged an earlier de-feat
at the hands of the Royals
by topping Bethel 93-88 last Sat-urday
night at Ashland, Wiscon-sin
at a battle of fouls. Seven
players fouled out in the whistle
blowing contest and a total of 59
fouls were called. Rekstad, Ny-berg
and Dahlquist fouled out for
the Royals and four Northland
players were necessarily picking
up splinters on the bench at the
game's close.
The Royals could have very eas-ily
hit 100 if they had been able
to make their lay ups and tip ins
at all consistently. Three times
they had 4 or 5 tip in opportuni-ties
in a row and they missed 8
lay-ups.
The teams played to a 41-41
deadlock at half time but North-land,
almost immediately pulled
out in front comfortably in the
second half. With five minutes left
the Royals were 16 points down
but by pressing and converting on
3 technical fouls called against
Sullivan of Northland they were
able to come up within five points
at the close of the game.
Don Knoner played his usual
fine consistent game as he scored
18 points. Four others hit double
figures as Conrad scored 19, Rek-stad
and Ohlin and Rekstad each
hit 15, and Bottonfield 14. But it
was not enough as Northland's
Chaput, Hokanson and Larson led
them to their 93 points.
(Bethel)
fg ft pf tp
Rekstad (f)
4 7 5 15
Ohlin (f)
5 5 3 15
Knoner (f)
4 10 4 18
Johnson (f)
1 0 1 2
Nyberg (c)
0 3 5 3
Dahlquist (c)
1 0 5 2
Conrad (g)
6 7 4 19
Bottonfield (g)
6 2 4 14
— — — —
Total
27 34 31 88
(Northland)
fg ft pf tp
Larson (f)
9 3 5 21
Buetow (f)
3 1 5 7
Snackenberg (f)
6 2 5 14
Beauchamp (c)
1 4 1 6
Hokanson (c)
1 17 5 19
Sullivan (g)
1 1 4 3
Chaput (g)
6 4 1 16
Chuala (g)
1 5 2 7
— — — —
Total 28 37 28 93
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Verkt eo(dee Sko
by Donald "Stretch" Richardson
It was either Milton or Shakespeare or Ronnie Palosaari who once
said, "You can make a heaven out of hell, or a hell out of heaven."
Some of my friends are wondering if the latter isn't happening at
Bethel. It's too bad—I mean it's too bad they think that way.
They look upon practical jokes (such as the pre-burning of the
homecoming bonfires) and instances of boisterousness as indications
of the decentralization of Christ. However, we have had no recent epi-sodes
of putting cattle in the dormitories or the throwing of aged cam-pus
personnel into a pungent bathtub solution. It happened in the
"good-old days," you know.
More money, they say, is spent in the coffee shop than in the
missionary offering. So what? Isn't that as it should be ? Even with
the tithe system, the coffee shop is one outlet for the nine-tenths while
the missionary offering is one outlet for only one-tenth. This becomes
even more significant when one realizes many students and faculty
eat one or two meals a day in the coffee shop.
But do not social activities receive attention and publicity at the
expense of spiritual activities such as prayer meetings ? If this is true,
it is but to be expected. When chapel services, gospel teams, and dormi-tory
prayer meetings happen as infrequently as Nik Dag and Homecom-ing
perhaps they too will be publicized more and attended with greater
curiosity.
Whether or not God is less pleased with Bethel now than previously
is impossible for one to assert dogmatically. It's my guess, though,
that Bethel is putting out a more mature brand of prepared Christians
now than ever before.
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Student Wives
In Charge of
BWA Jan. 19
The student wives will present
the program at the BWA meeting
January 19 in the dining hall.
Shirley Olson, Bernice Van Anda,
and Carolyn Sanders, speakers,
will tell of their life before they
became student wives, their life
now, and their future plans. The
special music will include a violin
solo by Carolyn, a vocal solo by
Bernice, and a sextet.
DEBATE
Northland Gains
Revenge on Royals
Resolved: For Bethel, Times Have Changed Maybe For The Worse
by LaAwrfefnircme vaatni vHee erden Negative
One of the "objects and purposes" outlined in the Constitution of
our Conference is "to maintain a Christ-centered college for the educa-tion
of young people." To what extent are we living up to that ideal?
Is Christ central in our attitudes and activities, or has He been de-throned
in the name of "balance and broadmindedness ?"
Every new generation seeks to escape at least some of the tradi-tional
taboos and mores. This can be a healthy adjustment. But we
are in danger of shuffling our system of values so rashly that we tip
the delicate balance of Christian maturity in the opposite direction,
degenerating into mere labels. Christ and His power may be out of
our grasp and even our view. We may claim Him as Saviour, but shun
Him as Lord.
What is Christ's position at Bethel ? He is no more central than
He is in your life and mine; and, what is more, I am convinced that
an inward usurping of His centrality manifects itself in outward acts
and attitudes. How do we measure up ?
Is rowdiness and a "look at me" complex indicative of a concern
for Christ's control ?
How many of us spend more money on "tricks and treats" each
week than we place in the Chapel missionary offering?
Why all the enthusiasm over Homecoming floats, Humorama and
Nik Dag without an equal interest in prayer and "deeper life" gather-ings
? A mature Christian keeps a wise balance between different sorts
of activities.
Why do Bethel employees receive so little gratitude for their many
services and courtesies ? Being polite, kind and thankful is as important
as serving on some Gospel team. Why are there not more Christian
"ladies and gentlemen" among us ?
I appeal then for a realistic self-examination. If we are guilty
of the above contradictions I question the preeminence of Christ at
Bethel.
Sin does not crash in and crush a college group like a bulldozer.
Instead is quietly twines around and strangles the spiritual life as a
jungle vine does a tree. Steadily and insidiously, as we amble along,
we are sapped of vital spiritual power without even realizing it. We
have "broadened our viewpoint" at the expense of cutting the roots of
spiritual depth.
Again I say, examine and "know thyself"—
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On Road Trip
Bethel broke even on a two
game road trip over the holidays
as they topped Bismarck 67-63
Dec. 19 and lost to Jamestown
88-72 Dec. 20.
The Royals led 44-32 atthe half
in the Bismarck game but were
pressed to win by four points.
Rekstad led the scorers with 21
and Bottonfield hit 18.
In the Jamestown contest, the
Bethel five was down only four
points at half but tired in the
late stages. Rekstad again led the
point parade with 21 and Conrad
and Bottonfield each scored 16.
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We Need Sanctified Thinkers
A Continuation
While I am in my spiritual sympathies wholly on the side of the
orthodox Christian faith, I am nevertheless forced to acknowledge that
Evangelicalism as it has been held and taught over the last half century
has tended to paralyze the critical faculties and discourage vigorous
thinking. Modern gospel Christians are parrots, not eagles, and rather
than sail out and up to explore the illimitable ranges of the kingdom
of God they are content to sit safe on their familiar perches and
repeat in a bright falsetto religious words and phrases the meaning of
which they scarcely understand at all. Another generation or two of
this and what is now Evangelicalism will be Liberalism. No living
thing can subsist for long on its yesterdays.
The Christians of this generation must see and hear something
for themselves if they are to escape religious stultification. Effete
catchwords cannot save them. Meanings are expressed in words, but
it is one of the misfortunes of life that words tend to persist long
after their meanings have departed, with the result that thoughtless
men and women believe they have the reality because they have the
word for it. That's where we are now, and may our Lord deliver us.
Triflers Are Out
The creative religious thinker is not a daydreamer, not an ivory
tower intellectual carrying on his lofty cogitations remote from the
rough world; he is more likely to be a troubled, burdened man weighed
down by the woes of existence, occupied not with matters academic
or theoretical but the practical and personal.
The great religious thinkers of the past were rarely men of
leisure; mostly they were men of affairs, close to and very much a
part of the troubled world. Neither will the sanctified thinker of our
times be a poet gazing at a sunset from some quiet secluded spot,
but one who feels himself a traveler lost in a wilderness who must
find his way to safety. That others will later follow the path he
makes will not be primary in his thinking. Later he will understand
this, but for the time being he will be all engaged hunting the way
out for himself.
To think well and usefully a man must be endowed with certain
indispensable qualifications. He must, for one thing, be completely
honest and transparently sincere. The trifler is automatically elimin-ated.
He is weighed in the balance and found too light to be entrusted
with the thoughts of God. Let but a breath of levity enter the mind
and the power to do creative thinking instantly goes out. And by
levity I do not mean wit or even humor; I do mean insincerity, sham,
the absence of moral seriousness. Great thoughts require a grave
attitude toward life and mankind and God.
Another qualification is courage. The timid man dare not think
lest he discover himself, an experience to him as shocking as the
discovery that he has cancer. The sincere thinker comes to his task
with the abandonment of a Saul of Tarsus, crying, "Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do ?" (Thinking carries a moral imperative. The
searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or
it will elude him.) Let him refuse to follow the light and he dooms
himself to darkness. (The coward may be shrewd or clever but he
can never be a wise thinker, for wisdom is at bottom a moral thing
and will have no truck with evil.)
Again, the effective religious thinker must possess some degree
of knowledge. A Chinese saying has it, "Learning without thought is
a snare; thought without learning is a danger." I have met Christians
with sharp minds but limited outlook who saw one truth and, being
unable to relate it to other truths, became narrow extremists, devoutly
cultivating their tiny plot, naively believing that their little fence en-closed
the whole earth.
An acquaintance with or at least a perception of the significance
of what Kant called "the starry heavens above and the moral law
within" is necessary to right thinking. Add to this a thorough know-ledge
of the Scriptures, a good historic sense and some intimate con-tact
with the Christian religion as it is practiced currently and you
have the raw material for creative thought. Still this is not enough
to make a thinker.
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The Desirous Heart
Man is a worshiper and only in the spirit of worship does he
find release for all the powers of his amazing intellect. A religious
writer has warned up that it may be fatal to "trust to the squirrel-work
of the industrious brain rather than to the piercing vision of
the desirous heart." The Greek church father, Nicephorus, taught that
we should learn to think with our heart. "Force your mind to descend
into the heart," he says, "and to remain there . . . When you thus
enter into the place of the heart give thanks to God and, praising
His mercy, keep always to this doing, and it will teach you things
which in no other way will you ever learn."
It is itself a cliche that the Christian faith is full of apparent
self-contradictions commonly called paradoxes. One such paradox is
the necessity to repudiate self and depend wholly upon God while at
the same time having complete confidence in our own ability to re-ceive
and know and understand with the faculties God Himself has
given us. That brand of humility which causes a man to distrust his
own mentality to the point of moral diffidence and chronic irresolution
is but a weak parody on the real thing. It is a serious reflection upon
the wisdom and goodness of God to question His handiwork. "Shall
the clay say to him that fashioned it, What makest thou ?" (Isa. 45:9,
10).
Flabby Christianity
A religious mentality characterized by timidity and lack of moral
courage has given us today a flabby Christianity, intellectually im-poverished,
dull, repetitious and to a great many persons just plain
boresome. This is peddled as the very faith of our fathers in direct
lineal descent from Christ and the apostles. We spoon-feed this in-sipid
pabulum to our inquiring youth and, to make it palatable, spice
it up with carnal amusements filched from the unbelieving world.
It is easier to entertain that to instruct, it is easier to follow degenerate
public taste than to think for oneself, so too many of our evangelical
leaders let their minds atrophy while they keep their fingers nimble
operating religious gimmicks to bring in the curious crowds.
Well, I dare to risk a prophecy: The sheep are soon going to be-come
weary both of the wilted clover we are giving them and the
artificial color we are spraying over it to make it look fresh. And
when they get sick enough to leave our pastures, the Pope, Father
Divine, Mrs. Eddy and their kind will find them easy victims.
Christianity must embrace the total personality and command
every atom of the redeemed being. We cannot withhold our intellects
from the blazing altar and still hope to preserve the true faith of
Christ.
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(continued)
him because he evidently has lost the spirit of Christmas.
I've wondered a lot about the "spirit of Christmas." It does
a lot of things to a lot of folks. But what is it ? Well it may mean
something to you that I never even thought of, but to me the
spirit of Christmas is the spirit of giving. Oh, we "give" all year
long but at Christmas it's different somehow. At Christmas we
give a little of ourselves—in the interest we show for other peo-ple,
in the effort we expend in making cookies or planning a
Christmas program, getting up a basket of food for some needy
family or singing carols to shut-ins, in the love that springs from
a grateful heart in an unrehearsed greeting to those newcomers
at church, and in the thoughts and prayers for those we hold to
us—tender thoughts and unselfish prayers. These are ways we
give and with no thought of personal gain. But I found that when
I give of myselef with no hope of getting in return, that is the
time the Father's gift of peace becomes reality to me. Maybe this
spirit of Christmas is too close to reality for us—is that why for
so many Christmas lasts only one day?
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To the place where Stalin dwelled
To the dear old Potash mines we
loved so well,
Sing the commisars assembled
With their Vodka raised on high,
And their murders and their purg-es
cast a spell.
Yes, their murders and their purge
of the names we loved so well
Lenin, Trotsky, Shostakovich and
the rest
We will serenade our Engels
While life and party last
And we'll veto and be forgotten
with the rest.
We are poor little Kulacks
Who have lost our farms
Joe, Joe, Joe.
We are poor little reds
Who have lost our heads
Joe, Joe, Joe.
Gentlemen Cossacks off on a spree
Doomed from here to Si-ber-i-e
Marx have mercy on bourgeousie
Joe, Joe, Joe.
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Sem Honors
Four seminary students qauilified
for top honors with straight A
averages during the fall quarter:
Charles C. Anderson, David Clark,
Norris Magnuson, and Gordon Ol-son.
The B honor roll includes 35
seminarians: Bert Anderson, Mar-vin
Anderson, Arthur Bayley,
Bernhard Bertell, David Brown,
Ralph Carlson, Bruce Chapman,
Milton Christensen, John Douhan,
David Engebretsen, Carroll Erick-son,
Frederick Erickson, Robert
Erickson, Calvin Fernlund, George
Galstad, Jr., John Hiben, Charles
Hill, Florence Jacobson.
Albert V. Johnson, Gordon John-son,
Ernest Kratofil, Oscar "Bud"
Lee, Harold Lind, Harry Menzies,
Richard Moberg, Paul Moon, Ro-bert
Oberg, Richard Ottoson, Law-rence
Seiffert, Harvey Swanberg,
Fred Thomas, Malcolm Van Ant-werp,
Lawrence Van Heerden,
Richard Varberg, James Wilson.
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gaiuta,
Vol. XXXIII—No. 9
Published by Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, January 10, 1956
Two Gain Perfect Averages
Two Bethel college students won highest scholastic honors during
the fall quarter. They are George Dvirnak and Linden Magnuson, who
earned straight A averages.
Nineteen students scored B plus
honors by earning 2.50 grade point
average or higher: Marjorie Block,
Bonnie Carlson, Bill Conrad, Bar-bara
Fischer, Barbara E. Johnson,
Lois Johnson, Grace Jolly, Janet
Lindquist, Marie Magnuson, Emily
Mattson, Carolyn Nystrom, Mar-jorie
Peterson, Ardith Rust, Fred
Schindler, June Sparling, Winni-fred
Stanford, Donald Sto'ham-mer,
Henry Swartz, and George
Wessman.
Fifty-three Bethelites earned B
honors: Willis Adams, Phyllis An-derson,
Martha Beaty, Joanne
Bennett, Paul Berg, Luther Bos-track,
Beverly Bowman, Phil Cal-deen,
Beverly Carlson, J. Robert
Carlson, June Carlson, Robert
Carlson, Retha Creech, Marlene
Durscher, Lorraine Eitel, Rollo
Entz, Edwin Erickson.
Nils Friberg, Ken Fuller, Al
Glenn, Donn Goss, Robert Ham,
Wayne Hassell, Betty Hendrickson,
Allen Hubin, Arnold Intveld, Ruth
Irons, Gloria Johnson, Lois Lar-son,
Richard Larson, Barbara Lin-der,
Carol Martinson, Betty Matt-son,
Ripley Moore, Morris Motley.
Fred Nordby , Ariel Obinger,
Normangene Olinger, John Os-born,
Beverly Otterness, Carol
Petry, Robert Reed, Bruce Rich-ardson,
Evan Rogers, Carol Seese,
Marylyn Sharp, Mildred Smith, Al-lan
Stahnke, Sally Waindl, Mar-lene
Warden, Elinor Weaver, Viv-ian
Weekley, Gerry Wilber.
The list of honor winners in-cludes
19 freshmen, 26 sopho-mores,
18 juniors, and 11 seniors.
George Dvirnak looks up for Linden Magnuson's okay on their
two perfect stratight A records.
Above: A. W. Tozer
We Need
Sanctified Thinkers
by A. W. Tozer
(Reprinted from the Alliance Weekly by permission)
The Church today is languishing for men who can bring to the
problems of religion reverent, courageous minds intent upon a solution.
Unfortunately Fundamentalism has never produced a great thinker.
One may examine the output of the religious press since the turn of
the century and not find a single book written by a fundamentalist
Christian that gives evidence of any real independent thought. And
as for those Christian scholars who, while thoroughly orthodox, yet
do not care to be classed with the fundamentalists, they have done
little better.
Let it be understood by everyone that am now and have always
been an evangelical. I accept the Bible as the very Word of God and
believe with complete and restful confidence that it contains all things
necessary to life and godliness. I embrace the tenets of the historic
Christian faith without reservation and am conscious of no spiritual
sympathy with Liberalism or Modernism in any of their manifestations.
Yet it is my painful duty to record not only that I have not been
challenged by the intellectual output of the evangelicals of this genera-tion,
but that I have found evidence of genuine religious thinking
almost exclusively on the side of those who fore one or another reason
are in revolt against Fundamentalism. We of the gospel churches
have sat quietly by and allowed those on the other side to do all the
thinking. We have been content to echo the words of other men and
to repeat religious cliches ad nauseam.
Rehashed Thoughts
By this I do not mean to assert that there have been no good or
useful books produced in gospel circles in the last fifty years. Un-doubtedly
there have been. Many good doctrinal books have appeared,
mainly expositions of the Pauline Epistles. Some excellent devotional
works have also been written, some good Christian biographies, a
number of fine books on foreign missions, not to mention a whole raft
of books on revival, written usually by persons who never saw a revival
of more than local proportions. All these books have served some
good end, no doubt, and we may in all sincerity be grateful for them;
but the trouble with them is that they are no more than rehashes
of other works that have appeared before them. They carry no evi-dence
that they are in any sense original. They were put together
out of pieces borrowed from others rather than born out of the anguish
and joy of personal experience. They cost the authors nothing beyond
the mechanical labor of writing them.
After committing myself to the foregoing sweeping statements
I suppose I should provide myself with an escape hatch in case some-one
drops a depth charge in my vicinity. I admit that I am forced to
speak within the framework of my own limited experience, and it could
be that some great evangelical thinker has appeared unknown to me
and written a masterpiece of which I have not yet heard. If this is
so, then I am in error. Again, if some of my readers should consider
such a man as C. S. Lewis an original thinker, I might explain that I
would classify Mr. Lewis as an apologist rather than as a creative
religious writer. He brings to the defense of historic Christianity a
mind as clear as sunlight and an amazing ability to make the faith
of our fathers appear reasonable. His weakness, or rather the weak-ness
of his books, lies in an almost total absence of moral urgency.
One may read his arguments, admit their soundness and remain com-pletely
unmoved by the whole thing. In short, his books persuade the
intellect but never get the conscience in trouble. For this reason C. S.
Lewis must remain an apologist; he can never be a reformer.
(continued on page 4)
Nine Win
Scholarships
High School Valedictory Schol-arships
have been awarded to nine
freshmen. These scholarships pay
one half of the winter quarter tui-tion
and all of the spring quarter
tuition.
The recipients are: John C. An-derson,
Stromsburg, Nebraska;
George Dvirnak, Killdeer, North
Dakota; Mary Fredrickson, Mara-than,
Iowa; Margie Kling, Beulah,
North Dakota; Janet Lindquist,
Grand Marais, Minnesota; Rich-ard
P. Nelson, Balaton, Minnesota;
Mark Nyberg, Kennedy, Minne-sota;
.Evan Rogers, Escanaba,
Michigan; David Shold, Grand
Marais, Minnesota.
College Shows
New Art Display
Boasting thirteen colored panels
and a title panel, the Student Cen-ter
finds itself this week in an-other
sea of colorful modern art.
This exhibition is released by the
Circulating Exhibitions Depart-ment
of the New York Museum
of Modern Art.
Explanatory text on each panel
gives information about the art-ists,
their points of view, and
their outstanding contributions to
the development of modern paint-ing.
Offered in conjunction with the
exhibition is the publication What
is Modern Painting, $1.25.
Work Begins on
Our Town"
Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"
will be presented by the Junior
Class April 13. The first rehear-sal
was held 3:00 Friday with
John Woods directing. Adeline
Duncan is assisting as student
director with Ray Geiger as the
stage manager. Mary Lou Rey-craft
is in charge of costuming
and Al Stahnke will manage ad-vertising
and ticket sales.
A Prayer
We Have Asked
Another little day of our earthly
existence is ended, dear Father.
We have asked Thee to use our
lives as vessels through which
Thy love can flow, but in our self-centeredness
we have had only a
stagnant love for ourselves. We
have asked for a portion of Thy
goodness, but we have been cold-ly
indifferent to the cares of
others. We have asked Thee for
joy and have turned to material
things to find it. We have asked
Thee for patience and wisdom, and
yet, we have left Thee out of our
hastily made decisions. In asking
Thee for peace of mind we have
not ceased our worrying and fret-ting,
but through our own efforts,
we have increased our frustrations.
And, because we have failed to
rest in Thy strength, we now come
to Thee in our weariness. Father,
make us conscious of our failures.
Forgive us, dear Father, for
asking and not accepting.
In our Saviour's name, amen.
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Not Just
A Week
Efate/data
A Case for Good Judgment
Is Bethel spiritual? Let's see what spirituality means. To me
spirituality is your attitude. Your actions reflect your attitude and
it is by your actions that others judge your attitude and therefore
your spirituality.
Someone will say, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." This may
be a simple problem of the meaning of the word "judge." In this
case maybe to judge means to condemn. It is how you judge—
what your attitude is—that makes a difference.
So, we need standards to judge by. I think they exist some-where
between extreme Fundamentalism and utter cynicism.
Take the fervent "soul-winner."
Christians mistakenly gauge spirituality by the number of
"souls" a person has "saved." The missionary challenge seems far
broader in meaning than just to go about town-crying, "Repent,
or be damned." Such a person may kill himself trying to find a
Bethelite who needs to be "saved," or who would listen to him
if he were not a Christian. I value such enthusiasm but it becomes
so often misguided, abused and uncontrolled—and a powerful good
turns into wasteful evil.
On the other hand, there's the "hard-boiled" cynic.
Have you ever stolen apples ? You know that you are doing'
wrong; you know that the orchard could be entered legally; you
know that you don't need the apples, for you are not starving)
or even hungry. Still you steal—just for the fun and adventure
of disobeying conscience, parents, or the law; just to be a non-conformist,
or just to be naughty. It can be just so easy to become
a most venomous, cutting cynic in a Christian community like
Bethel. And does this mean that such a one has "fallen away"?
It is more nearly correct to judge that he has taken an easy path.
(It may come out the same idea.)
In the matter of spirituality, both of the extremes mentioned
above are poor; fiery but blind zeal, or penetrating but lazy criti-cism.
To level this spiritual teeter-totter is difficult. It is hard
to have a well balanced Christian personality. There doesn't seem
to be the easy Christian life. And there are no easy answers to
its problems.
Is Bethel spiritual ? Look.
Measurable Values
by Paul Grabill, assistant professor of English
Bethel's program each year includes such diverse events as Home-coming,
Nik Dag, the Junior Class play, and Deeper Life Week. The
last-named is upon us. Presumably this week is something other than
entertainment. Now what is it really ?
Let us cite what it is not first. As I conceive it, it is not to be
five full days of rib-thumping, arm-flailing exhortation and challenge.
It is not a period in which we act unusually religious. Nor is it to
provide a religious feast toward which we hungrily press for 51
weeks. It is not to be a peek of "mountain-top experience" climaxed
by impassioned hand-raising and card-signing. Nor is its purpose even
to make better Christians out of us for five great days. Moreover,
it is not an academic vacation.
But Deeper Life Week is an important part of the over-all Bethel
program that strives to develop spiritually and intellectually mature
Christians. We do not sever ourselves from our other Bethel exper-ience
during this week; this is a part of the whole. We bring to the
services that understanding and those critical faculties that we are
developing from day to day. At each meeting ideas are presented
which we listen to and evaluate as best we know how. And according
to our need and our ability we then incorporate these ideas into our-selves.
Thus, Deeper Life Week becomes—not a temporary source of
emotive release and good feelings—but a permanent experience.
Of course this is the ideal. Often we are left unchanged by Deeper
Life Week and piously rationalize that something supernatural has
happened within without our realizing it now, something that will
—someday—result in improved living. I doubt this. Deeper Life Week
should produce spiritual values that can be measured objectively. The
simple test is to ask ourselves during the week following Deeper
Life Week: Am I different this week from week before last? In
what ways ? Am I more conscientious in my studies ? Are my attitudes
and actions toward others improved ? Do I take God into account
more than I did ?
May God grant each of us this year a significant Deeper Life
Week.
from a ebri5tnut5 'letter
Then it was Christmas Eve. And the little tribe gathered
around while Papa read the familiar story of the Baby and thanked
the Father for this most wonderful of all gifts .. .
Our family seems especially close at Christmas time. It's the
same feeling you get when someone has gone out of his way to
do something just to please a friend. And of course that feeling
is enhanced at the thought of God's going out of His way to give
man peace. Somehow you look into the faces of the people you
know and have known for years and you see new value. Old fried-ships
take on new meaning and your heart holds deeper love.
You're happy for people's good fortune and care enough for
the needy to do something about it. All around you see people-strangers—
with softer expressions. When you're competing with
customers in a crowded department store and one of them steps
on your heel, you can almost expect a smile and a hearty, "Sorry—
Merry Christmas !" Once in a while someone will answer your
smile with a scowl and you don't flare inside but feel sorry for
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74e 7eadeir Sftealea
"Tolle Lege"
by Anton T. Pearson, prof. of Old Testament Language and Literature
"Take, read," was the slogan for Universal Bible Sunday, December
11, 1955. These words, "tolls, lege," (take, read) called out by a child
at play led a sophisticated young philosopher, Augustine, to resume
reading the epistles of Paul. In the year 386, through the message of
Romans 13:13-14, he met his Savior and experienced pardon and peace.
He became one of the mightiest theologians ever to adorn the Church
of Jesus Christ.
Well might we apply the words "take, read" as an admonition to
ourselves to "give attention to reading" of God's Word. I would like
to review with you some suggestions that will help us become better
acquainted with the Bible, enable us to teach and speak out of the
overflow.
(1) Resolve to read the Bible all the way through this year. Read
the New Testament first if this is your initial trip through the Bible.
Otherwise read both Testaments daily. Three chapters each weekday
and five each Sunday will take you through the Bible in one year.
(2) Make use of many versions. Since most of us cannot read
the Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek, we must needs read it
in some version or translation. Rather than taking the word of others,
find out for yourself what the various versions are like. Read Moffatt,
Smith-Goodspeed, and the Revised Standard Version. Read the New
Testament paraphrases by Phillips and the Gospels as translated by
Rieu. A modern language edition throws a flood of light on various
passages. It is thrilling to compare the different versions. A good
way to keep posted on your Spanish, German, Swedish, and Latin is
to read the Bible in those languages. Diligent pastors strive to read
the New Testament in Greek once a year! But what shall I say about
the Hebrew ?
Bible by Mims—these studies will
enrich one's personality and give
him much to share with others.
(5) Last, first, and always there
is the devotional reading of the
Bible. The psalmist delighted in
the law of the Lord, meditated on
it, hid it in his heart, found it
more desirable than gold. In our
devotional reading, we are not
out to cover ground or discover
sermon topics, but to feed our
souls, we are concerned to meet
Christ and to receive reproof, cor-rection,
and instruction in right-eousness.
For a life of spiritual
strength the daily meditation on
God's word is imperative. "They
that wait upon the Lord shall re-new
their strength." "Take, read."
A Refresher Course
by Russell W. Johnson, associate professor of Biology
When I practiced and taught forestry, I attended conferences to
familiarize myself with my purposes and aims as a forester and inject
new ideas into my program. As a Christian instructor at Bethel,
Deeper Life Week is like a conference because I can reacquaint my-self
with the challenging opportunity for service and consider new
ideas.
I know that I have been com-
Nor is it enough that criticism missioned by God to instruct
be true. The law of libel is useful young people in the way that He
here. A statement may be true has revealed Himself to man in
but libelous if in the court's opin- nature. Through the emphasis for
ion its pronouncement was occas- a "deeper" life, I want to be cer-ioned
by no reasonable purpose. tain that my relationship with the
No one is obliged to shout all the students, and with everyone I
truth he knows from the house- meet, is not shallow. Deeper Life
tops. (This idea does not relate week presents an opportunity to
to the obligation to be truthful recognize more clearly our moti-when
it is necessary to speak on vations and strive with new under-some
matter. It only relates to standing and zeal to commit them
the town-crier instinct possessed to Him.
by many of us.)
The fact that Deeper Life Week
Of course it goes without say- is being held at this time should
ing that criticism ought to be not give students an opportunity to
only truthful but also punctiliously seriously evaluate their spiritual
concerned with accuracy and com- life on campus as compared to
pleteness. their spiritual life in the home
For the Christian critic there is church. Because their memory of
still another demand that must the atmosphere in the home church
be heeded. All criticism must be is still fresh and they are return-given
in love. Jesus was a devas 7 ing to Bethel as students familiar
tating critic. Witness the "white- with college life, I feel that they
washed sepulcher" passage. But are particularly eager for and re-he
wept for those he decried. This ceptive to guidance.
juxtaposition of love and criticism From my experience with Deep-is
hard to achieve, but it is crucial er Life Week during the past
in the teaching, preaching, and years, I know that our young peo-parental
function, and therefore ple will be doing some serious and
must be learned. significant thinking this week and
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the weeks to follow.
by Junetta Best
Deeper Life seems to be one of
the most challenging titles which
could be attached to a week of
inspirational and devotional meet-ings
prepared for a group of
Christians. The title suggests the
possession of a deep life prior to
the week and the possibility of
leading a deeper life as a result
of the week's meetings.
For myself, I expect from Deep-er
Life Week greater insights on
God and His ways and a closer re-lationship
with Him. I would have
the Lord make me recognize my
need for obedience and make me
yield myself completely to Him all
over again, that I might emerge
from the experience with a deeper
life wherein the roots which God
has planted might be more firmly
established.
In relationship to Christ I would
suppose that Deeper Life Week
will be a fulfillment of Colossians
1:27, "To whom God would make
known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the
Gentiles; which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory." From the Word
I would expect a fulfilling of I
Peter 1:2, "As newborn babes de-sire
the sincere milk of the Word
that ye may grow thereby." Here
particularly I would expect in this
week to find material to "grow
thereby."
Just a few thoughts without any
more knowledge of what Deeper
Life Week should mean other than
what is implied in the name itself.
Zetteta to
Ederept
00n Criticism
Dear editor:
Any society or any individual
needs the prod of criticism at
all times if they are to escape the
stagnating effects of self-satisfac-tion.
Any college community educat-ing
itself for rich living, there-fore,
must permit and promote
criticism of its total life—its val-ues,
its personnel, its student body,
etc., for without criticism the col-lege
itself will be poorer and the
student body will be less skilled
in this needed capacity.
A college newspaper ought to
be one source of this criticism,
and it ought to be free to experi-ment
in the critical arts. But in
exercising these arts those who
write, edit, and even those who
contribute to the letter-to-the-edi-tor
column ought to consider care-fully
the purpose of criticism.
Criticism is a means. It is not
an end. One criterion of criticism
must be, therefore, its usefulness
in promoting some worthy end,
which we may label here as the
bettered life of the group (or in-dividual).
Any attempted critical
effort that is not productive of
some betterment is not really
criticism at all.
Thus, it is not enough that
criticism be clever. The temptation
to use satire, irony, or lampoon
solely for art's sake is very great,
and these are useful tools in the
critic's kit. But when the ill use
of these tools causes bitterness,
hatred, and stand-patism it con-stitutes
pseudo-criticism at best—.
for the simple reason that it may
hinder progress.
(3) Use a good commentary.
Reading a commentary may seem
like a dictionary—hard to find the
plot. But read your Bible portion
and commentary side by side, and
you will be amazed at your growth
in Biblical knowledge. For a be-ginning,
get the New Bible Com-mentary
published under the aus-pices
of the British Intervarsity.
Commentaries are expensive, but
they are life time investments, and
absolutely essential to any deep
study of the Scriptures.
(4) Study special topics re-lated
to the Bible. The minerals,
plants, diseases, astronomy of the
Bible—what fascinating paths to
explore! Archeology and the Bible,
as treated by Finegan, Albright,
and others; The Poets and the
.ette,te rite
Edeal
(continued)
Given the above criteria, much
of our critical effort on this cam-pus
and in this paper has been
pseudo-criticism. When this was
due to the "amateur" status
of the critic, it could be excused.
But some efforts have been mere-ly
clever, or inaccurate, or just
plain baiting. These reflect in some
measure the selfish demand for
applause, the • lazy inability to take
pains, and the impish desire to
cause irritation. That such critical
effort has existed is at once de-plorable
and dangerous for many
reasons, among which is the fact
that irresponsible criticism has
often led to the regrettable sur-pression
of all criticism.
W. H. P.
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Northland avenged an earlier de-feat
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by topping Bethel 93-88 last Sat-urday
night at Ashland, Wiscon-sin
at a battle of fouls. Seven
players fouled out in the whistle
blowing contest and a total of 59
fouls were called. Rekstad, Ny-berg
and Dahlquist fouled out for
the Royals and four Northland
players were necessarily picking
up splinters on the bench at the
game's close.
The Royals could have very eas-ily
hit 100 if they had been able
to make their lay ups and tip ins
at all consistently. Three times
they had 4 or 5 tip in opportuni-ties
in a row and they missed 8
lay-ups.
The teams played to a 41-41
deadlock at half time but North-land,
almost immediately pulled
out in front comfortably in the
second half. With five minutes left
the Royals were 16 points down
but by pressing and converting on
3 technical fouls called against
Sullivan of Northland they were
able to come up within five points
at the close of the game.
Don Knoner played his usual
fine consistent game as he scored
18 points. Four others hit double
figures as Conrad scored 19, Rek-stad
and Ohlin and Rekstad each
hit 15, and Bottonfield 14. But it
was not enough as Northland's
Chaput, Hokanson and Larson led
them to their 93 points.
(Bethel)
fg ft pf tp
Rekstad (f)
4 7 5 15
Ohlin (f)
5 5 3 15
Knoner (f)
4 10 4 18
Johnson (f)
1 0 1 2
Nyberg (c)
0 3 5 3
Dahlquist (c)
1 0 5 2
Conrad (g)
6 7 4 19
Bottonfield (g)
6 2 4 14
— — — —
Total
27 34 31 88
(Northland)
fg ft pf tp
Larson (f)
9 3 5 21
Buetow (f)
3 1 5 7
Snackenberg (f)
6 2 5 14
Beauchamp (c)
1 4 1 6
Hokanson (c)
1 17 5 19
Sullivan (g)
1 1 4 3
Chaput (g)
6 4 1 16
Chuala (g)
1 5 2 7
— — — —
Total 28 37 28 93
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by Donald "Stretch" Richardson
It was either Milton or Shakespeare or Ronnie Palosaari who once
said, "You can make a heaven out of hell, or a hell out of heaven."
Some of my friends are wondering if the latter isn't happening at
Bethel. It's too bad—I mean it's too bad they think that way.
They look upon practical jokes (such as the pre-burning of the
homecoming bonfires) and instances of boisterousness as indications
of the decentralization of Christ. However, we have had no recent epi-sodes
of putting cattle in the dormitories or the throwing of aged cam-pus
personnel into a pungent bathtub solution. It happened in the
"good-old days," you know.
More money, they say, is spent in the coffee shop than in the
missionary offering. So what? Isn't that as it should be ? Even with
the tithe system, the coffee shop is one outlet for the nine-tenths while
the missionary offering is one outlet for only one-tenth. This becomes
even more significant when one realizes many students and faculty
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But do not social activities receive attention and publicity at the
expense of spiritual activities such as prayer meetings ? If this is true,
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prayer meetings happen as infrequently as Nik Dag and Homecom-ing
perhaps they too will be publicized more and attended with greater
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is impossible for one to assert dogmatically. It's my guess, though,
that Bethel is putting out a more mature brand of prepared Christians
now than ever before.
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Student Wives
In Charge of
BWA Jan. 19
The student wives will present
the program at the BWA meeting
January 19 in the dining hall.
Shirley Olson, Bernice Van Anda,
and Carolyn Sanders, speakers,
will tell of their life before they
became student wives, their life
now, and their future plans. The
special music will include a violin
solo by Carolyn, a vocal solo by
Bernice, and a sextet.
DEBATE
Northland Gains
Revenge on Royals
Resolved: For Bethel, Times Have Changed Maybe For The Worse
by LaAwrfefnircme vaatni vHee erden Negative
One of the "objects and purposes" outlined in the Constitution of
our Conference is "to maintain a Christ-centered college for the educa-tion
of young people." To what extent are we living up to that ideal?
Is Christ central in our attitudes and activities, or has He been de-throned
in the name of "balance and broadmindedness ?"
Every new generation seeks to escape at least some of the tradi-tional
taboos and mores. This can be a healthy adjustment. But we
are in danger of shuffling our system of values so rashly that we tip
the delicate balance of Christian maturity in the opposite direction,
degenerating into mere labels. Christ and His power may be out of
our grasp and even our view. We may claim Him as Saviour, but shun
Him as Lord.
What is Christ's position at Bethel ? He is no more central than
He is in your life and mine; and, what is more, I am convinced that
an inward usurping of His centrality manifects itself in outward acts
and attitudes. How do we measure up ?
Is rowdiness and a "look at me" complex indicative of a concern
for Christ's control ?
How many of us spend more money on "tricks and treats" each
week than we place in the Chapel missionary offering?
Why all the enthusiasm over Homecoming floats, Humorama and
Nik Dag without an equal interest in prayer and "deeper life" gather-ings
? A mature Christian keeps a wise balance between different sorts
of activities.
Why do Bethel employees receive so little gratitude for their many
services and courtesies ? Being polite, kind and thankful is as important
as serving on some Gospel team. Why are there not more Christian
"ladies and gentlemen" among us ?
I appeal then for a realistic self-examination. If we are guilty
of the above contradictions I question the preeminence of Christ at
Bethel.
Sin does not crash in and crush a college group like a bulldozer.
Instead is quietly twines around and strangles the spiritual life as a
jungle vine does a tree. Steadily and insidiously, as we amble along,
we are sapped of vital spiritual power without even realizing it. We
have "broadened our viewpoint" at the expense of cutting the roots of
spiritual depth.
Again I say, examine and "know thyself"—
Bethel Splits
On Road Trip
Bethel broke even on a two
game road trip over the holidays
as they topped Bismarck 67-63
Dec. 19 and lost to Jamestown
88-72 Dec. 20.
The Royals led 44-32 atthe half
in the Bismarck game but were
pressed to win by four points.
Rekstad led the scorers with 21
and Bottonfield hit 18.
In the Jamestown contest, the
Bethel five was down only four
points at half but tired in the
late stages. Rekstad again led the
point parade with 21 and Conrad
and Bottonfield each scored 16.
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We Need Sanctified Thinkers
A Continuation
While I am in my spiritual sympathies wholly on the side of the
orthodox Christian faith, I am nevertheless forced to acknowledge that
Evangelicalism as it has been held and taught over the last half century
has tended to paralyze the critical faculties and discourage vigorous
thinking. Modern gospel Christians are parrots, not eagles, and rather
than sail out and up to explore the illimitable ranges of the kingdom
of God they are content to sit safe on their familiar perches and
repeat in a bright falsetto religious words and phrases the meaning of
which they scarcely understand at all. Another generation or two of
this and what is now Evangelicalism will be Liberalism. No living
thing can subsist for long on its yesterdays.
The Christians of this generation must see and hear something
for themselves if they are to escape religious stultification. Effete
catchwords cannot save them. Meanings are expressed in words, but
it is one of the misfortunes of life that words tend to persist long
after their meanings have departed, with the result that thoughtless
men and women believe they have the reality because they have the
word for it. That's where we are now, and may our Lord deliver us.
Triflers Are Out
The creative religious thinker is not a daydreamer, not an ivory
tower intellectual carrying on his lofty cogitations remote from the
rough world; he is more likely to be a troubled, burdened man weighed
down by the woes of existence, occupied not with matters academic
or theoretical but the practical and personal.
The great religious thinkers of the past were rarely men of
leisure; mostly they were men of affairs, close to and very much a
part of the troubled world. Neither will the sanctified thinker of our
times be a poet gazing at a sunset from some quiet secluded spot,
but one who feels himself a traveler lost in a wilderness who must
find his way to safety. That others will later follow the path he
makes will not be primary in his thinking. Later he will understand
this, but for the time being he will be all engaged hunting the way
out for himself.
To think well and usefully a man must be endowed with certain
indispensable qualifications. He must, for one thing, be completely
honest and transparently sincere. The trifler is automatically elimin-ated.
He is weighed in the balance and found too light to be entrusted
with the thoughts of God. Let but a breath of levity enter the mind
and the power to do creative thinking instantly goes out. And by
levity I do not mean wit or even humor; I do mean insincerity, sham,
the absence of moral seriousness. Great thoughts require a grave
attitude toward life and mankind and God.
Another qualification is courage. The timid man dare not think
lest he discover himself, an experience to him as shocking as the
discovery that he has cancer. The sincere thinker comes to his task
with the abandonment of a Saul of Tarsus, crying, "Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do ?" (Thinking carries a moral imperative. The
searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or
it will elude him.) Let him refuse to follow the light and he dooms
himself to darkness. (The coward may be shrewd or clever but he
can never be a wise thinker, for wisdom is at bottom a moral thing
and will have no truck with evil.)
Again, the effective religious thinker must possess some degree
of knowledge. A Chinese saying has it, "Learning without thought is
a snare; thought without learning is a danger." I have met Christians
with sharp minds but limited outlook who saw one truth and, being
unable to relate it to other truths, became narrow extremists, devoutly
cultivating their tiny plot, naively believing that their little fence en-closed
the whole earth.
An acquaintance with or at least a perception of the significance
of what Kant called "the starry heavens above and the moral law
within" is necessary to right thinking. Add to this a thorough know-ledge
of the Scriptures, a good historic sense and some intimate con-tact
with the Christian religion as it is practiced currently and you
have the raw material for creative thought. Still this is not enough
to make a thinker.
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The Desirous Heart
Man is a worshiper and only in the spirit of worship does he
find release for all the powers of his amazing intellect. A religious
writer has warned up that it may be fatal to "trust to the squirrel-work
of the industrious brain rather than to the piercing vision of
the desirous heart." The Greek church father, Nicephorus, taught that
we should learn to think with our heart. "Force your mind to descend
into the heart," he says, "and to remain there . . . When you thus
enter into the place of the heart give thanks to God and, praising
His mercy, keep always to this doing, and it will teach you things
which in no other way will you ever learn."
It is itself a cliche that the Christian faith is full of apparent
self-contradictions commonly called paradoxes. One such paradox is
the necessity to repudiate self and depend wholly upon God while at
the same time having complete confidence in our own ability to re-ceive
and know and understand with the faculties God Himself has
given us. That brand of humility which causes a man to distrust his
own mentality to the point of moral diffidence and chronic irresolution
is but a weak parody on the real thing. It is a serious reflection upon
the wisdom and goodness of God to question His handiwork. "Shall
the clay say to him that fashioned it, What makest thou ?" (Isa. 45:9,
10).
Flabby Christianity
A religious mentality characterized by timidity and lack of moral
courage has given us today a flabby Christianity, intellectually im-poverished,
dull, repetitious and to a great many persons just plain
boresome. This is peddled as the very faith of our fathers in direct
lineal descent from Christ and the apostles. We spoon-feed this in-sipid
pabulum to our inquiring youth and, to make it palatable, spice
it up with carnal amusements filched from the unbelieving world.
It is easier to entertain that to instruct, it is easier to follow degenerate
public taste than to think for oneself, so too many of our evangelical
leaders let their minds atrophy while they keep their fingers nimble
operating religious gimmicks to bring in the curious crowds.
Well, I dare to risk a prophecy: The sheep are soon going to be-come
weary both of the wilted clover we are giving them and the
artificial color we are spraying over it to make it look fresh. And
when they get sick enough to leave our pastures, the Pope, Father
Divine, Mrs. Eddy and their kind will find them easy victims.
Christianity must embrace the total personality and command
every atom of the redeemed being. We cannot withhold our intellects
from the blazing altar and still hope to preserve the true faith of
Christ.
Irani 3 ebrizttnao tater
(continued)
him because he evidently has lost the spirit of Christmas.
I've wondered a lot about the "spirit of Christmas." It does
a lot of things to a lot of folks. But what is it ? Well it may mean
something to you that I never even thought of, but to me the
spirit of Christmas is the spirit of giving. Oh, we "give" all year
long but at Christmas it's different somehow. At Christmas we
give a little of ourselves—in the interest we show for other peo-ple,
in the effort we expend in making cookies or planning a
Christmas program, getting up a basket of food for some needy
family or singing carols to shut-ins, in the love that springs from
a grateful heart in an unrehearsed greeting to those newcomers
at church, and in the thoughts and prayers for those we hold to
us—tender thoughts and unselfish prayers. These are ways we
give and with no thought of personal gain. But I found that when
I give of myselef with no hope of getting in return, that is the
time the Father's gift of peace becomes reality to me. Maybe this
spirit of Christmas is too close to reality for us—is that why for
so many Christmas lasts only one day?
VAMPUS
NWOTES
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To the tables in the Kremlin
To the place where Stalin dwelled
To the dear old Potash mines we
loved so well,
Sing the commisars assembled
With their Vodka raised on high,
And their murders and their purg-es
cast a spell.
Yes, their murders and their purge
of the names we loved so well
Lenin, Trotsky, Shostakovich and
the rest
We will serenade our Engels
While life and party last
And we'll veto and be forgotten
with the rest.
We are poor little Kulacks
Who have lost our farms
Joe, Joe, Joe.
We are poor little reds
Who have lost our heads
Joe, Joe, Joe.
Gentlemen Cossacks off on a spree
Doomed from here to Si-ber-i-e
Marx have mercy on bourgeousie
Joe, Joe, Joe.
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